Windows Server 2008 Interop and Performance Benchmark

This week is an exciting one for Microsoft, particularly those of us who work on the Server & Tools Business—today we’re launching new versions of three cornerstone technologies—Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008. The theme is “Heroes Happen Here”—meant to recognize the valiant efforts of our IT Pros and Developers every day. These are the individuals who help make real, meaningful connections between IT and the business.

One of folks on my team who is making heroes happen is Greg Leake, who is a technical marketing director. In his own words, Greg’s purpose is to “improve the lives of developers.” To do this, he has created a lab, and spends time on interoperability testing for Web Services as well as performance testing. No matter the time of day or night, it’s likely that you will find Greg in his lab, which means he probably also holds the record for most cups of coffee in one day.

Once again Greg jumped in the ring to find out just how far we could push the perf boundaries for Windows Server and .NET against other publicly available apps like IBM’s J2EE StockTrader perf application.

For more information and complete results, check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/stocktrader! You can also download the application with the benchmark tests and try it yourself! Also, look out for the upcoming .NET StockTrader 2.0 in the next few weeks!